Naming confusion

[Lloyd Hayes]

 >don't worry about it.

With XFree86, it is an issue.
It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I 
won't swear that's the problem with Xorg.

 >Unless you're trying to have someone outside reach your machine (as 
opposed to vice versa), you might as well just use whatever name the ISP 
you're currently connected to tries to give you.

Uhhhh, The computer with FBSD on it has not been connected to the 
Internet since last winter, when it had Win 98SE on it. I'm a truck 
driver who carries two computers in the truck with me, and seem to be 
collecting more older computers at home in Wyoming. In the truck, I 
always have one computer turned on. I get my loads over the Internet, 
get most of my news over the Internet, keep truck records, do my legal 
logbook, and keep in touch with my daughters who live in Europe, and 
learn about FreeBSD all with a laptop computer. The fact of the matter 
is that I can not even work without a working computer.

I've been using my backup computer as a test bed for the various 
operating systems.  M$ has never been real reliable. But my virus 
software seems to be blocking viruses almost daily which are aimed at 
one Microsoft product or another. It has become apparent to me that any 
computer that I have which is connected to the Internet needs to be 
using non-M$ products. I had hoped to make a painless transfer to one of 
the Linux or BSD products, much as I did about 11 years ago when I 
jumped from CBM and Apple computers to PCs. (13 years of using CBM 
computers and only a couple of years of using Apples.)

So far, it has been anything but painless. The priorities of a UNIX 
system is far different then what I've experienced. And I have yet to 
get a UNIX type system developed enough to access the Internet. One 
challenge or another keeps cropping up.

So, it seems that I'm hitting text books again, and asking questions 
during my spare time....

The question that I keep asking myself is if I can get to a point with 
FreeBSD, or any UNIX type system, where I am comfortable with it and I 
can make it adapt to my changing environment. At this point, I feel that 
if I can learn enough about it, FreeBSD is my best answer. My reasoning 
is that while newer programs are always put into usage on any OS, you 
can usually still manually configure everything with FreeBSD.

Since many of the processes running on FreeBSD require a 'named' 
computer, I need to know how to handle this. Otherwise, as it says in 
"The Complete FreeBSD" book, there will be processes which will not run, 
or else they will not run correctly on my computer. The answer to this 
problem does not seemed to be addressed while using 'dhclient' in any of 
the printed information that I could find.


Lloyd Hayes

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Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker at yahoo.com> writes:
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>>Naming the computer host?
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>>I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS
>>assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different
>>location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would
>>normally get from my ISP. I don't have a permanent ISP. I mainly use 2
>>services at locations all across the USA. Normally I simply assign a
>>name to the computer, but it appears that FBSD wants a complete
>>Internet address.
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>Unless you're trying to have someone outside reach your machine (as
>opposed to vice versa), you might as well just use whatever name the
>ISP you're currently connected to tries to give you.
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>>This appears to me to be a conflict. I think that I read in "The
>>Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition" where there are some addresses to use
>>if the computer will never be hooked into the Internet. But that is
>>not the case here.
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>That's IP addresses, not DNS names.  It is an unrelated issue; don't
>worry about it.
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